FromMiddle Englishexit, fromLatinexitus(“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), fromexeō(“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) +-tus(suffix forming action nouns from verbs).[1][2]Exeō is derived fromex-(prefix meaning ‘out, away’) +eō(“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate withItalianesito,Portugueseêxito,Spanishéxito.[1]Doublet ofejido andexitus.
On the firſt Day of the eleventh Month of the fortieth Year after theExit fromEgypt,Moſes, after he had numbred the People in the Plains ofMoab byJordan nearJericho, and found that there was not left a Man of thoſe, whom he had almoſt forty Years before numbered in the Wilderneſs ofSinai, ſaveCaleb andJoſhua, by the Command of God made a Covenant with theIſraelites in the Land ofMoab, [...]
1762 (first performance),Samuel Foote,The Lyar. A Comedy in Three Acts.[…], London: Printed for G. Kearsly,[…], published1764,→OCLC, act I, scene ii,page12:
[...] I have purſued you like your ſhadow; I have beſieg'd your door for a glimpſe of yourexit and entrance, like a diſtreſſed creditor, who has no arms againſt privilege but perſeverance.
1834,Thomas Moule;W[illiam] Westall, illustrator, “Devonshire.[Dartmouth Castle.]”, inThe Landscape Album; or, Great Britain Illustrated:[…] Second Series, London: Charles Tilt,[…],→OCLC,page57:
The entrance of the river Dart into this bay, as well as itsexit into the sea, appear from many situations closed up by the sinuosity of the banks, and give it the form of an inland lake, while the rocks on its sides, composed of glossy purple-coloured slate, have their summits fringed with various plants and shrubs.
1838 June 11, “Inquests on the Rioters”, inThe Champion and Weekly Herald, volume 2, number 5 (New Series), London: Printed and published by Richard Cobbett,[…],→OCLC,column141:
Mr. Ogilvie, surgeon, deposed that he, in company with Mr. Andrews, had examined the body of George Catt, and found upon him a gun-shot wound, which had entered the right cheek, passed through the mouth and lower part of the brain, making itsexit at the posterior and lower part of the bone on the left side of the head.
All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue theirExits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being ſeuen ages.
1968, Leon C. Miller, “Blocking the Play”, inHow to Direct the High School Play, Chicago, Ill.: The Dramatic Publishing Company,→OCLC,pages39 and 43:
Why do directors assume thatexits and entrances need not be rehearsed?
She stood at theexit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.
1877 February 17, “The Proposed Act for the Security of Theatres in New York”, inThe American Architect and Building News, volume II, number60, Boston, Mass.:Houghton,Osgood & Co. publishers[…],→OCLC,page51, column 2:
[F]or the audience, a directexit in front of the proscenium wall is preferable to one through it. It seems to us, in fact, that thatexits at this point on both sides ought to bede rigueur; for in the first place, it is important not only that there should be manyexits, but that they should be as wisely distributed as possible.
2004, Robert A. McManus, Sean M. O’Toole, “Everyday Security Topics, Procedures, and Operations”, in Kathryn M. Gainey, editor,The Nightclub, Bar and Restaurant Security Handbook, 3rd edition, Swampscott, Mass.: Locksley Publishing,→ISBN, section II.3 (Ejections),page125:
Ejecting a Violent Patron [...] If a patron is struggling and floormen can hardly keep him under control, the patron must be brought out the nearestexit so the patron cannot harm himself or other patrons. If both parties involved are struggling, both parties must be taken out the nearestexits, but not the sameexit. If both parties are ejected at the same time, through the sameexit, the altercation will continue outside the club and your floormen will have to break it up again [...].
1972, “Article III—Driving on Right Side of Roadway—Overtaking and Passing—Use of Roadway”, inTraffic Laws Annotated, Washington, D.C.: National Committee on Uniform Laws and Ordinances,→OCLC, § 11-312 (Restricted Access),page348:
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access highway except at such entrances andexits as have been designated by the department.
From Washington Dulles International, follow the signs to Interstate 66 east to Washington. Follow I-66 to the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (US Route 50). take the Constitution Aveexit off of the bridge.
However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon theexits of great and excellent men.
The spelling has been modernized.
1756 September 9, “Thursday, September 9, 1756”, inThe World, number193, London: Printed forR[obert] andJ[ames] Dodsley [...] and sold by M. Cooper [...],→OCLC; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The British Essayists; with Prefaces Historical and Biographical, volume XXIX, London: Printed forJ[oseph] Johnson, [et al.],1808,→OCLC,page200:
I have contrived a most effectual machine for the easy decapitation for such as chuse that noble and honourableexit; which no doubt must give great satisfaction to all persons of quality, and those who would imitate them.
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1873, Henry A. Carroll,Romulus: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts, Memphis, Tenn.: Partee & Matthews, book and job printers,→OCLC, act I, scene iii,page13:
Come, goodRemus, our men await us. Let the lion roar and roam to-day; he may be of service; to-morrow, perchance we'll chain him. [Exit Stephano right fourth entrance. Soft music. Remus,exiting, looks hard atRomulus. Exit Remus right fourth entrance.]
1971,Henning Nelms, “Note on Curtain Calls”, inOnly an Orphan Girl: A Soul-stirring Drama of Human Trials and Tribulations in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.:Dramatists Play Service,→OCLC,page59:
Lucy enters at 11 o'clock and runs to her mother after blowing kiss to audience with both hands. They bothexit at 11 o'clock, afterAppleby's line.Ethel crosses to her victim at 3 o'clock, winks at him and then looks over her shoulder as she crosses to door at 1 o'clock, where she speaks her line andexits.
1993, Thomas R. Gest, William E. Burkel, Nicholas A. Waanders, “Gluteal Region and Posterior Thigh”, inReview Questions for Gross Anatomy & Embryology, New York, N.Y.; Carnforth, Lancashire: Parthenon Publishing Group,→ISBN,page294, column 2:
The sciatic nerveexits via the greater sciatic foramen and may in fact be divided by all or part of the piriformis muscle. The pudendal nerveexits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen.
2014, Jennifer Serling, “Disease Transmission, Control, and Prevention”, in Paula Pattengale, Terea Sonsthagen,Tasks for the Veterinary Assistant, 3rd edition, Ames, Iowa:Wiley-Blackwell,→ISBN, task 5.4 (Isolation Ward Rules and Sanitation),page116:
A disinfectant footbath is recommended whenexiting from the isolation area. Shoe covers or booties can be placed over shoes prior to entering the isolation ward and disposed of immediately beforeexiting.
Common Lisp provides a facility forexiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner.
1995, Roland Hughes, “Tricks You Should Already Have”, inZinc It!: Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI’s, Evanston, Ill.: John Gordon Burke Publisher,→ISBN, section 3.5 (exit_program() Function),page3-6:
Every ZAF program needs to call a routine like this toexit the application. Just put it in your library and be done with it.
1970 January 6,Morris Edward Lasker,United States District Judge,United States of America -v- James Armiento and Edward Jernek, Defendants[Opinion of the Court] (no. 36451),[New York, N.Y.]:United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; reprinted inEdward Jernek, Petitioner, against United States of America, Respondent: Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (docket no. 34984), South River, N.J.; New York, N.Y.: Lutz Appellate Printers,17 June 1971, appendix B, footnote c,page20a:
At approximately 10:35 a.m. said John Doeexited 110 East 36th Street without the brown paper bag. [...] On four occasions, said John Doe was observedexiting 110 East 36th Street and observed on two occasions entering apartment actually marked 71, but meaning apartment 710 on seventh floor of 150 East 35th Street.
More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991exited poverty in 1992.
2002, John Hawkey, “The Importance of Time and Timing”, inExit Strategy Planning: Grooming Your Business for Sale or Succession, Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.:Gower Publishing,→ISBN,page 3:
Many owners of private businesses will make the decision toexit their businesses because they have reached natural retirement age, or because they are ill, or because they have decided for personal reasons that they have just had enough.
2011, Dot Goulding, “Breaking the Cycle: Addressing Cultural Difference in Rehabilitation Programmes”, in Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor, Chris Trotter, editors,Working with Women Offenders in the Community, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.:Willan Publishing,→ISBN,page173:
[C]ommunity-based programmes for womenexiting prison work most effectively when cultural issues are a primary consideration and relationships of trust are already established.
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, inRAIL, number996, page30:
These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering andexiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
1994,William F. Roemer, Jr.,Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos and Baseball: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, Shapolsky Publishers,→ISBN,page159:
When Walshexited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan.
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A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. /Exit purſued by a Beare.
1810 July,Frederic Reynolds, “The Free Knights; or The Edict of Charlemagne. A Drama, in Three Acts, Interspersed with Music; as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.”, inThe Jersey Magazine; or Monthly Recorder, volume II, number 7, Jersey: Printed and published by J. Stead,→OCLC, act I, scene iii,page325, column 1:
Agnesexit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I.
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